Norma Torres

Norma Torres (4 April 1965-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-CA 35) from 3 January 2015, succeeding Gloria Negrete McLeod.

Biography
Norma Torres was born in Escuintla, Guatemala on 4 April 1965, and her family moved to Los Angeles, California when she was five years old. She worked as a 9-1-1 dispatcher and led a 1994 campaign to require the hiring of bilingual operators; she was also an active labor unionist. From 2001 to 2006, she served on the Pomona City Council, and she served as Mayor of Pomona from 2006 to 2008, in the State Assembly from 2008 to 2013, in the State Senate from 2013 to 2014, and in the US House of Representatives from 2015. She was a member of the centrist New Democrats.